Yearly Archive: 2022

EGLIN AFB, Fla. — The 96th Test Wing acquired its newest aircraft, and along with it, a leading-edge experimentation effort last month.

The 40th Flight Test Squadron took possession of the first of two government-owned Kratos XQ‑58A Valkyrie aircraft. The Valkyrie is a low-cost, high-performanc…

SANDØYA AIR STATION, Norway –– The Air Force Rapid Dragon Experimentation Program, led and developed by the Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation, or SDPE, office, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Integrated Capabilities Directorate, in partnership with U.S. Specia…

End of Operation Barkhane, nuclear deterrence, high-intensity conflict…

Aboard the amphibious helicopter carrier Dixmude, the President of the Republic on November 9 in Toulon spoke for nearly an hour to present the objectives of the new National Strategic Review. He said it is intended to…

Conducting operations on the modern battlefield requires the ability to precisely target the enemy’s forces and objects along the entire depth of his combat group. This ability can be provided by highly mobile, and hence with high ability to survive in the theater of operations, precise means of des…

PATUXENT RIVER, Md. — The Air-to-Air Missiles Program Office (PMA-259) gained Portugal as its 29th Air Intercept Missile (AIM)-9X International Partner, after Portugal announced it signed and accepted the AIM-9X Block II Missile Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) on Sept. 28.

The signed LOA a…

WICHITA, Kan. — Textron Aviation Defense today announced the delivery of the first Beechcraft T-6C Texan II Integrated Training System to the Tunisian Air Force in support of operations at No. 13 Squadron at Sfax Air Base in Tunisia.

The Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract comprises eight T-…